Results 181-200 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (15 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: 74. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to reopen the GLAS scheme for new applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41963/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (15 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he requested compensation at European level to assist farmers who have incurred beef price losses since May 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41964/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: That is the primary one.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: I will follow on from where my colleague concluded because Kilkenny and Carlow are very close. I will ask about rural transport services. With the carbon taxes being introduced and the proposal that they will increase over the next ten years, all of us will be looking to public transport. It will be the NTA's job in the next ten years to deal with that as best it can and to provide a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Does the NTA have control of the rural link? Is that part of its remit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: We call it the rural link. Is it part of the NTA's remit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: The funding for that comes from the NTA.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: That is good. I did not know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Does the NTA envisage the roll-out of better rural provision?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: I am not talking about towns but the small villages in all counties. Does Ms Graham see a role in the future there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Will this lead to private carriers? Will the NTA be tendering out to private companies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: That is good. I want to ask about the city services such as the service in Waterford. That is subsidised-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: -----and we are starting such a service in Kilkenny. Will the NTA be subsidising that as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Is that all under the NTA's remit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: That is welcome. I want to ask about the management of the green schools travel programme. What is that about? Does the NTA have anything to do with the Bus Éireann service for school buses? If it does not, we will have a big argument. Bus services for schools are a big thorn for us in rural Ireland. I see mention of the green schools travel programme. Could funding come from that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: How is that funded and advertised? What way will it be rolled out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Is the NTA in charge of the greenways such as the walk from Waterford to Dungarvan and the one from New Ross to Waterford that is coming on stream? Is the NTA subsidising that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: I want to know about the taxi services. There was a big complaint about Dublin having too many taxis. It is not as big a problem out the country. Is there still a problem with taxis? Can anyone get a taxi ad lib today anywhere in Ireland? Is the NTA in control of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: For hackneys as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Bobby Aylward: Anybody who wants a licence goes through the NTA, therefore. Has Dublin always been oversubscribed with taxis as the taxi drivers say? I hear the complaints about there being too many taxis and I often hear there are more taxis in Dublin than in New York. Does the NTA hear that? Are the taxi drivers right in what they are saying?